The Supreme Court has recently (31-8-10) given a decision which has a bearing on most apartment dwellers in Mysore. In this order, the Court has declared that builders of apartment buildings can not sell any parking area open to the sky or inside the stilted portion of the building to any buyer along with an apartment.
The order states that parking areas open to the sky or inside the stilted portion of the building are part of the "common areas" which belong to all the residents of the apartment building. So they can not be sold to any apartment owner to the exclusiob of others. But many apartment buildings in Mysore have sold and are selling such parking areas to individual apartment owners. This action of the builders is clearly against the order of the Supreme Court.
P.M.Bhat, MGP